Hash oil explosions rise with legalized pot


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DENVER ?  The opening months of Colorado's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug's intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories.

Since Jan. 1, when sales began, the state's only certified adult burn center has treated 10 people with serious injuries they suffered while making hash oil, compared with 11 in 2013 and one in 2012.

Law enforcement and fire officials, meanwhile, are grappling with how to respond, as the questionable legality of the process has made it difficult to punish amateur chemists. Some prosecutors are charging them with felonies, while others say hash oil production is protected under a provision of the new legal pot law.

"These today are the meth labs of the '90s. We have to change our thinking and what we're looking for," said police Sgt. Pat Long in Thornton, a Denver suburb where officers were puzzled by the city's first hash oil explosion in January.

Hash oil is typically made by packing the castoff leaves and stems of pot plants into a pipe and pouring highly flammable butane through it. The concoction is heated to make the potent oil for far cheaper than it can be purchased in stores.

The golden mixture can be up to 80 percent THC, marijuana's intoxicating chemical, and devotees say one or two drops can produce a more euphoric high than an entire joint. It can also be infused into baked goods or vaporized.

Without proper ventilation, butane fumes can linger. All it takes is a spark of static electricity to ignite a room.

 

Colorado marijuana businesses are allowed to manufacture hash oil using butane, but with strict rules. Colorado's pot laws allow adults 21 and over to grow up to six plants at home and cooks often use their own plants to affordably make hash oil in their kitchens or garages.

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Glad to see that marijuana is remaining 'harmless'. :)

 

Give bubble wrap to a moron and they'll find a way to harm themselves, no difference here. 

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It's funny how all these stories come out after it's legalized that people are going crazy on laced pot foods and now exploding hash oil... yet these things still happened when it was illegal. Now it's legal they have to find a way to make it out to be this terrible thing any way they can. The village idiots will always show themselves.

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It's funny how all these stories come out after it's legalized that people are going crazy on laced pot foods and now exploding hash oil... yet these things still happened when it was illegal. Now it's legal they have to find a way to make it out to be this terrible thing any way they can. The village idiots will always show themselves.

"Since Jan. 1, when sales began, the state's only certified adult burn center has treated 10 people with serious injuries they suffered while making hash oil, compared with 11 in 2013 and one in 2012." Point proven. This article states before legalization and after stats, 2014 = 10 incidents , 2013/2012=11 incidents. So before legalization, these "amateur" chemists accounted for the majority of these incidents, they still continue to make the product, independent of what law says its legal or illegal.  less incidents are relatively occurring compared to 2012/2013, Therefore, this use of over emotive language, stating "hash oil explosion" is a cheap tactic. Poor taste really... And perceptually misleading  :/. I sense agenda + controversial issues of current events being the motivating factor, its click bait based on false perceptions of old stereotypes f marijuana, hash and other bi-products. 

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Hahaha.

Meth labs changed to producing hash oils now?

Lets risk my life, house and everything to get a slightly 'better' high a little bit cheaper then buying it in the store.

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Hahaha.

Meth labs changed to producing hash oils now?

Lets risk my life, house and everything to get a slightly 'better' high a little bit cheaper then buying it in the store.

 

Unfortunately there are way too many idiots walking the streets amongst us hence why a lot of these things have been hard to legalize. If it wasn't for idiots and morons we probably wouldn't have half of the laws, rules and regulations that we do. What are you gonna do though...

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Unfortunately there are way too many idiots walking the streets amongst us hence why a lot of these things have been hard to legalize. If it wasn't for idiots and morons we probably wouldn't have half of the laws, rules and regulations that we do. What are you gonna do though...

Sterilize the stupid ... ? ;)

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